小畜 → 臨
Hexagram 9: Small Taming → Hexagram 19: Approach
䷈
小畜
Small Taming
Wind / Heaven
→
䷒
臨
Approach
Earth / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 5, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWind → EarthThe Gentle → The Receptive
Lower TrigramHeaven → LakeThe Creative → The Joyous
Yilin Verse
子啼索哺，母行求食；反見空巢，長息訾弋。
The chick cries out for food; the mother goes out to forage. Returning to find an empty nest; she sighs long and grieves.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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